OHIO
International Business Times
By Marcy Kreiter
on July 04 2014
A former Toledo, Ohio, priest convicted of killing a nun in a hospital chapel before Easter 1980 died early Friday in a prison hospital.
The Rev. Gerald Robinson, 76, who was sentenced to 15 years to life for the killing of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, 71, died at Franklin Medical Center in Columbus. He had been given last rites a month ago after he suffered a heart attack.
Robinson was convicted in 2006 for the murder in the sacristy of the former Mercy Hospital chapel where he and the victim both worked. The nun had been strangled and stabbed 31 times.
Pahl’s stab wounds formed an upside-down cross. There was a smudge of blood on her forehead.
The death came after a federal judge Thursday refused a petition for compassionate release. Gov. John Kasich had earlier denied a similar plea, the Toledo Blade reported.
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